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Conference announcement
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IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis
(ISBA 2017)
Location: New Delhi, India
Dates: February 23-24 2017
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
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ISBA is a unique conference series initiated by the IEEE Biometrics Council
and its third edition will be held in New Delhi, India. This conference is
intended to meet the emerging need for a winter meeting, especially for the
Asian participants where the introduction of large scale biometrics
programs have attracted significant increase in research and development
efforts. It will be a forum that brings together experts in biometrics,
security, and human behavior to consider research issues and solutions that
are robust, comprehensive, and broader than currently considered in each of
these individual research areas. This conference serves to provide a new
form for such broad areas defining human side of security and user behavior
as well as social influence in the biometrics security.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Anti-Spoofing, Behavioral Biometrics, Biometric System Evaluation,
Biometrics in Law Enforcement, Cybercrime
• De-identification, Detection and Tracking, Device Identification, Digital
Forensics
• Human Behavior Analysis, Human Activity Understanding, Identity
Management, Information Security, Person Re-identification
• Performance Evaluation, Privacy-preserving Computing, Predictive
Analytics, Single and Multi-modal Biometrics
• Social Biometrics, Social and Criminal Network Inference, Surveillance
Identification, Template Protection and Data Privacy
• Usability and Performance, User-centric Biometric Security
Submitted papers may not be accepted or under review elsewhere. Submissions
may be up to eight pages in conference format (double blind reviewing).
Papers accepted and presented at ISBA 2017 will be published in conference
proceedings and made available in IEEE Xplore library.
Important dates
Submission deadline: October 10, 2016
Decision to authors: December 10, 2016
Camera ready submission: December 20, 2016
Conference: February 23-24, 2017
General Chair
Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland, USA)
General Co-chairs
Ajay Kumar (PolyU, Hongkong)
Richa Singh (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Program Co-chairs
M. Ehsan Hoque (University of Rochester, USA)
Nitesh Saxena (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Vishal M. Patel (Rutgers University, USA)
Mayank Vatsa (IIIT-Delhi, India)
Publication Chair
Soma Biswas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Finance Chair
Angshul Majumdar (IIIT-D, India)
Publicity Chair
Abhinav Dhall (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Industry Liaison
Sameer Shah (HCL, India)
http://ieee-biometrics.org/isba2017/
Dear list:
A Funded PhD position is available with Dr Natalie Butcher (Teesside University, UK) on a project entitled: differences in processing and recognising static and moving faces. The position is one of 25 Graduate Tutor roles which will support the post holder to study for a PhD whilst gaining teaching experience. These posts are salaried for up to 4 years (£20,989 - £25,023) and all associated fees are also covered as part of the role.
The proposed research seeks to investigate the individual differences factors that influence the extent to which a viewer benefits from the availability of facial motion information when learning and recognising faces. The work will include execution of experimental psychological studies to explore the relationship between a range of individual differences factors and the motion advantage, within typical and atypical populations.
Deadline for application: July 31, 2016
If you know of any suitable candidates who are interested in conducting a PhD in this field can you please consider sharing this information with them.
For more information about the graduate tutor role and how to apply see: https://recruitment.tees.ac.uk/itrentlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec107gf… For more information about the range of projects graduate tutors can select their PhD topic from including this project see: http://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/research/projects2.cfm For informal enquiries, please feel free to contact me by email (n.butcher(a)tees.ac.uk) Best wishes, Natalie
Dr Natalie Butcher
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
School of Social Sciences,
Business & Law
Teesside University
TS13BX
Tel: +44(0)1642 342385
Twitter: @TeesPysch
@Dr_N_Butcher
Postdoctoral Position, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Applications are invited for an NIH funded postdoctoral position combining eye tracking and intracranial EEG recordings in humans to study the neural basis of face recognition, object recognition, and social and affective perception, at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
The research will focus on understanding the dynamic neural code that underlies the recognition of faces, bodies, objects, facial expressions, and other social and affective stimuli and how this information guides, and is guided by, eye movements. Of particular interest is how this information is coded in interactive neural circuits at the level of large-scale brain networks. The neural data will primarily be local field potentials/ event related potential from intracranial surface electrodes (electrocorticography, ECoG), cortical depth electrodes, and subcortical depth electrodes in humans in conjunction with eye tracking. There is also the potential for studies involving direct cortical stimulation to assess how neural modulation alters visual perception.
The ideal applicant would hold a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or a related field. Strong technical, computational, and statistical skills are required. Experience with combining eye tracking and electrophysiological data is required (for example, scalp EEG and eye tracking). Applicants should have a strong track record of publication.
Pittsburgh is consistently ranked the most livable city in America and the neuroscientific community here, particularly at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, is both very strong and collaborative.
Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, a CV, and the names and contact information for 3 researchers who can provide a recommendation. For further information or to submit an application, please contact Avniel Ghuman, Ph.D. at ghumana(a)upmc.edu and see our website at www.lcnd.pitt.edu<http://www.lcnd.pitt.edu>
Apologies for cross-postings
Call for challenge participation
Fourth Emotion Recognition in the Wild (EmotiW) Challenge 2016
@ ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2016, Tokyo
https://sites.google.com/site/emotiw2016/
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The Emotion Recognition in the Wild 2016 Challenge consists of multimodal
classification challenges, which mimics real-world conditions.
Traditionally, emotion recognition has been performed on laboratory
controlled data. While undoubtedly worthwhile at the time, such lab
controlled data poorly represents the environment and conditions faced in
real-world situations. With the increase in the number of video clips
online, it is worthwhile to explore the performance of emotion recognition
methods that work ‘in the wild’. There are two sub-challenges: audio-video
based emotion recognition in videos and group-level emotion recognition in
the images (new).
Timeline:
Train and val data available: shared!
Test data available: 30th June 2016
Last date for uploading the results: 15th July 2016
Paper submission deadline: 25th July 2016
Notification of acceptance: 25th August 2016
Camera-ready: September 2016
Organisers
Abhinav Dhall, Roland Goecke, Jyoti Joshi and Tom Gedeon
Contact
emotiw2014(a)gmail.com
PhD position (urgent):
Understanding the dynamic of facial expression decoding mechanisms by means of an electrophysiologic approach by fast periodic visual stimulation
Being able to quickly read emotional expression from the face is critical for human social interactions. Six facial expressions – fear, disgust, sadness, happiness, angry, surprise – also known as the ‘basic emotions’ have been suggested to be universally recognized (Ekman & Friesen, 1975). Studies on facial emotional processing have produced evidence for impairments in neurological and psychiatric populations, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, patients may often compensate on explicit behavioral tasks and fail on implicit face processing tasks, which suggests that they rely less on automatic emotion processing, but employ cognitive, language-based or perceptual compensatory mechanisms.
This PhD proposal will focus on understanding the decoding of facial expression in typical human population by means of the rapid presentation of brief expression changes and the recording of implicit measures with electroencephalography (EEG). Specifically, we will rely on a fast periodic visual stimulation approach (FPVS) during EEG recording. Intracerebral recordings of patients suffering from epilepsy refractory to medication with the same paradigms will aim at understanding the neural basis of facial expression decoding.
The PhD will be supervised by S. Caharel & J. Lighezzolo-Alnot at the Laboratory INTERPSY at the University of Lorraine in Nancy, France (http://interpsy.univ-lorraine.fr/content/stéphanie-caharel <http://interpsy.univ-lorraine.fr/content/st%8Ephanie-caharel>), and L. Maillard at the CHU of Nancy for intracerebral recording studies. Studies with the FPVS approach in EEG will be performed in close collaboration with B. Rossion and M. Dzhelyova at the University of Louvain in Belgium (http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com/) <http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com/)>.
The position involves a temporary appointment for 3 years, with a starting date on September/October 2016. Applications should be completed ideally by june 20th.
For more information, please contact:
Stéphanie Caharel by email: stephanie.caharel(a)univ-lorraine.fr <mailto:stephanie.caharel@univ-lorraine.fr>
Candidate requirements
We will consider highly motivated candidates with a degree in neuroscience, neuropsychology, biomedical sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, physics etc. A high level of written and spoken English is required. The ideal candidate will have good programming skills for the setting up and adaptation of stimulation paradigms and data analysis, experience with neurophysiological techniques such as EEG, and a background in cognitive neuroscience. Knowledge of the topic of research – face perception - is an asset.
Supervision
- Stéphanie Caharel, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology, Lab Interpsy (EA 4432), University of Lorraine (stephanie.caharel(a)univ-lorraine.fr <mailto:stephanie.caharel@univ-lorraine.fr>)
- Joëlle Lighezzolo-Alnot, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Lab Interpsy (EA 4432), University of Lorraine (joelle.lighezzolo(a)univ-lorraine.fr <mailto:joelle.lighezzolo@univ-lorraine.fr>)
- Louis Maillard, Pr. of Neurology, University Hospital of Nancy, CRAN UMR CNRS 7039, University of Lorraine (l.maillard(a)chru-nancy.fr <mailto:l.maillard@chru-nancy.fr>)
Main Laboratory: Lab of Psychology “InterPsy” (EA 4432) – University of Lorraine: http://interpsy.univ-lorraine.fr <http://interpsy.univ-lorraine.fr/>
Other Labs associated: CRAN (UMR CNRS 7039) - University of Lorraine; Face Categorization Lab, UCLouvain, Belgium (http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com/ <http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com/>)
To apply, please send application letter, CV, academic results (master’s degree) and two letters of recommendation before June 20, 2016 to the ED 78 Stanislas doctoral school and to Stéphanie Caharel (stephanie.caharel(a)univ-lorraine.fr) <mailto:stephanie.caharel@univ-lorraine.fr)> (with ‘PhD application 2016’ as subject line)
Applications are welcomed for a postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI-CBS) in Leipzig, Germany in collaboration with the Technical University Dresden, Germany. The objective of the postdoctoral research project is to use computational modelling and neuroimaging to work towards a novel model for cortico-subcortical interactions for human communication signals. The project is funded by the ERC-consolidator grant SENSOCOM (http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/199655_en.html).
The position will be jointly supervised by Katharina von Kriegstein at the MPI-CBS and Stefan Kiebel at the TU Dresden. The MPI-CBS offers a unique research environment with a 7.0 T MRI scanner, several 3.0 T MRI scanners, a 306 channels MEG system, TMS/tDCS laboratories, several EEG suites, and eye-tracking labs. All facilities and data analyses are supported by experienced IT specialists and physicists. The TU Dresden is one out of eleven German Universities of Excellence. It houses a state-of-the art neuroimaging centre with a strong focus on computational modelling and access to the TU Dresden high-performance computing clusters. Besides an excellent infrastructure, both centres offer an international and friendly environment with researchers from diverse backgrounds.
The position is ideal for candidates interested in research at the interface between computational modelling and experimental neuroimaging. The candidates must have a PhD (or equivalent) in computational neuroscience, experimental psychology, or a related field, and should be able to demonstrate a consistently outstanding academic record, including publications. The ideal candidate will have expertise in computational neuroscience, physics, mathematics, or similar with a strong interest in implementing computational models (e.g., Bayesian filtering, hierarchical dynamic models, predictive coding) and testing these with neuroimaging experiments.
The starting date for the position is flexible. Initially for two years, the position offers the possibility of extension for up to four years. Salary depends on experience and is based on regulations of the Max Planck Society.
To apply, please include all documents in one PDF-file in the following order: CV, contact information of two referees, a brief statement describing your personal qualifications and future research interests, copies of up to three of your publications. Applications with the subject heading "CM 16 PD" should be sent via email to: personal(a)cbs.mpg.de. Closing date for applications is the 12th June 2016.
Informal enquiries regarding the post should be directed to: Prof. Dr. Katharina von Kriegstein (kriegstein(a)cbs.mpg.de).
For more information about the groups see:
Prof. Katharina von Kriegstein: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication
Prof. Stefan Kiebel: https://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_mathematik_und_n…
A link to the position description is available here: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/454795/job_full_offer_10498685?c=7390
The MPI-CBS is an equal opportunities employer, committed to the advancement of individuals without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, or disability.
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Katharina von Kriegstein
Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Stephanstr. 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Professor of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Humboldt University of Berlin
Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49 (0) 341-9940-2476
Fax +49 (0) 341-9940-2448
http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication
Dear face
research community,
My name is
Vincent Wan and I am a research assistant in the Neuroscience of Vision and
Action (NOVA) lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC). We are in the
process of searching for a database of adult faces of a wide range of “ages” of
Caucasian and East Asian ethnicity. It would be ideal to have the exact age of each
individual included in his or her profile. If you are in possession of such a
database, we would greatly appreciate your assistance and it would be a large
asset to us in our upcoming research. You can contact me through my e-mail
(vince.wan(a)hotmail.com) and I would be more than happy to answer any further
questions you may have.
Sincerely,
Vincent Wan
Call for Papers
The Visual Mind
A Special Issue of Visual Cognition in Honour of Glyn Humphreys
Submission deadline: November 1, 2016
Guest Editor: Christian Olivers
Guest Associate Editors: Jim Tanaka, Charles Folk, Iain Gilchrist, Dana Samson, Martin Edwards, and Jane Riddoch.
Glyn Humphreys has left a tremendous legacy in the field of visual perception and beyond. Through his enormous creativity, breadth and depth of research, there is virtually no area in vision science that he has not had an impact on, and he will be remembered as probably the most versatile scientist in the field so far. Visual search, spatial vision, perceptual organization, object recognition, semantic processing and categorization, face perception, visual neglect, visual agnosia, perception for action, visual working memory, inhibition and cognitive control, reading, and social vision – and the list is probably still not complete. As the founder and first chief editor of Visual Cognition, he was one of the first to recognize the importance of higher order cognitive processes in vision. He has provided many demonstrations of this himself, such as the crucial role of perceptual grouping by similarity in visual search, the effects of action affordances on object perception, and, most recently, the role of the image of the self on visual selection. Moreover, he combined his vast knowledge base with a wide range of methods, from investigating normal to neuropsychological behavior, and from neuroimaging to computational modeling. Glyn was multidisciplinary avant la lettre.
For these reasons it does not make sense to make this special issue about a specific topic. Instead, it will pay tribute to a very special person. Someone who was able to create a warm, open and vibrant research atmosphere, and inspire many scientists young and old. He truly reached out, not only to other fields, but also to people from upcoming countries, in order to improve science in general.
To honor the contributions of Glyn Humphreys, we invite submissions that are based on, inspired by, or otherwise related to his work. Topics are flexible but should cover higher order processes related to vision, and be demonstrably linked to Glyn’s work. Naturally, as good science befits, this may also include arguments and evidence against Glyn’s ideas. We foresee that topics may self-organize into various themes, which could include, among other topics:
- Visual attention (e.g. visual search, visual hemineglect)
- Object recognition (e.g. viewpoint invariance, categorization, visual agnosia)
- Perception for action (e.g. affordances, apraxia)
- Social vision (e.g. perspective taking, self-salience)
Both empirical papers and integrative reviews will be considered. All submissions will undergo normal full peer review, maintaining the same high editorial standards as for regular submissions to Visual Cognition. Manuscripts should be submitted using the electronic submission portal (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pvis) on or before Nov 1, 2016. Please select the appropriate especial issue as manuscript type when submitting and you should state in a covering letter to the editor that the paper should be considered for the special issue honoring Glyn Humphreys. The deadline is firm; our intention is to publish the special issue within nine months after the submission deadline. Revisions invited by the guest editors will be expected within two months of receipt of the editorial decision letter and reviews.
Face research opportunity at University of Glasgow
We are advertising for a postdoc or RA to work on an ERC-funded project on social perception of faces. The job advert is below. Email the PI (ben.jones(a)glasgow.ac.uk) for more information. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANN883/research-assistant-associate/